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A great deal less partisan and petulant sounded Philip Murray's Industry Council Plan. As a substitute for $1-a-year men and the confusion of Government boards and bureaus overlapping one another like shingles on a roof, Murray would set up over each basic industry a council of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Shoes for Mr. Murray | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

The NBC Symphony, most costly and prestigious orchestra of the U.S. air waves, last week got a successor to "The Old Man1' -Arturo Toscanini-who for four seasons had larruped great music out of it. The successor, as had been rumored (TIME, May 26), is petulant, platinum-blond Leopold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stokowski for Toscanini | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

With stubborn Russian resistance to the Nazis on the east and U.S. aid on the west, many an ebullient Briton has come to believe that World War II is as good as won. Such optimists, surprised and petulant when the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting did not hatch an outright U.S. declaration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fools' Paradise Lost | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

The citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mediterranean Balance Sheet | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

All this to-do dated from last June, when a dozen petulant Indians stormed into the front office of the Cleveland club, wailed that Manager Oscar Vitt's scoldings got on their nerves, asked President Alva Bradley to fire him. Instead of spanking them, President Bradley coddled his pets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Innings | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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